For as long as the American League East division has existed in MLB, it’s been universally recognized as the strongest division overall in baseball. Whether that meant the Yankees were dominating everybody else,

Fresh off his first start against the Red Sox since joining the Yankees, Max Fried didn’t make much of his introduction to a storied rivalry.

The Red Sox signed Alex Bregman, a Yankees nemesis from his Astros days, and former Dodgers World Series hero Walker Buehler.